Congressional and Legislative Analyst

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* Position Title:

Congressional and Legislative Analyst**

Location: Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia

Category: Contingent upon contract award

Schedule (FT/PT): Full Time

Travel Required: N/A

Shift: Day

Remote Type: In-Office

Clearance required:
Top Secret required

Salary:** $170,000 - $185,000**

*** THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON CONTRACT AWARD***

Who is ACT1 Federal? ACT1 Federal LLC is a 100% employee-owned company. We’ve served the Department of War (DoW) for nearly thirty years. Our core missions include weapon systems engineering, logistics, space domain expertise, global defense and security, business and financial management for security assistance and major defense articles, as well as military training and arctic security. Join us!

Description: ACT1 Federal is seeking an experienced
** Congressional and Legislative Analyst
** to provide legislative research, congressional engagement preparation, inquiries, hearing and briefing materials, correspondence, and coordination with Navy stakeholders in support of industrial base and fifth shipyard decisions.

Responsibilities:

Congressional and Legislative Analysis:

• Monitor and analyze pending and enacted authorization, appropriations, supplemental, and other legislation affecting Navy industrial-base programs, authorities, investments, and priorities.

• Review bill text, amendments, committee reports, explanatory statements, hearing records, testimony, congressional correspondence, and Government reports for requirements, restrictions, deadlines, and emerging issues.

• Assess the programmatic, budgetary, acquisition, production, supplier, infrastructure, workforce, and policy implications of congressional action or proposed legislation.

• Maintain legislative crosswalks, trackers, calendars, issue histories, and traceability from congressional direction to responsible organizations and required actions.

Legislative Product Development:

• Support development and coordination of legislative proposals, appeals, impact statements, information papers, reports to Congress, responses to questions for the record, and other authorized products.

• Prepare concise summaries, talking points, briefing materials, read-aheads, issue papers, decision memoranda, and leadership updates concerning congressional matters.

• Coordinate factual and technical inputs from DASN DIB directorates, Navy Secretariat organizations, resource sponsors, systems commands, program executive offices, program offices, counsel, comptroller, and other stakeholders.

• Review products for accuracy, consistency, completeness, sourcing, deadlines, appropriate caveats, and alignment with approved Government positions.

• Maintain controlled versions, coordination records, source documentation, suspense status, and disposition of congressional or legislative taskings.

Leadership and Engagement Support:

• Support preparation for hearings, briefings, staff engagements, oversight reviews, and other authorized interactions involving DASN DIB priorities.

• Develop anticipated questions, supporting facts, issue backgrounds, risk considerations, and post-engagement action tracking for Government review.

• Advise directors on legislative timelines, committee interests, reporting obligations, and potential effects on program execution or industrial-base initiatives.

• Provide rapid analysis of emerging congressional issues while safeguarding predecisional, legislative, budget-sensitive, proprietary, and classified information.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in political science, public policy, government, communications, or related field.

• 10+ years in legislative affairs, congressional relations, federal policy, or defense headquarters support.

• Strong knowledge of congressional authorization, appropriations, oversight, hearing, reporting,…